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Getting the word out

Last updated on: July 24, 2024 at 10:06 am by Dan Peterson

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Joseph Smith (Paul Wuthrich) and Martin Harris (Lincoln Hoppe), at work on the translation of the Book of Mormon in a scene from the Interpreter Foundation’s 2021 theatrical film, “Witnesses.”

The Interpreter Foundation has published yet another short video feature that has been drawn from its 2022 docudrama Undaunted: Witnesses of the Book of Mormon. This one, featuring Professor Steven C. Harper, bears the title “Eyewitness Testimony Regarding Book of Mormon Translation”: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jVPlJB4s8O8

I invite you to watch it and to share it (along with the rest of the video shorts that have been created and that will be created in the series) with others.

Frederic Remington, “The Smoke Signal” (1905). [Wikimedia Commons public domain image]

Before we launched the Interpreter Radio Show, we experimented with other means of communication. But we have found broadcast radio superior in many ways to such technologies as carrier pigeons, smoke signals, Morse code, and knot-tying.

Newly posted on the largely defunct and never changing website of the Interpreter Foundation:

Nibley Lectures: Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon Lesson 31: “Look to God and Live” : Alma 36-38

This week for Come, Follow Me lesson 31 covering Alma 36-38, we have lecture 56 from Hugh Nibley’s Book of Mormon classes at Brigham Young University, covering Alma 36–41.

During 1988, 1989, and 1990, Hugh Nibley taught Honors Book of Mormon classes for four semesters at Brigham Young University. The lectures were video-taped and audio cassettes and printed transcripts were made of them. We believe these recordings will be interesting to listen to and valuable to your Come, Follow Me study program this year. Each week, we will include the lectures covering the Book of Mormon chapters being studied that week.

Come, Follow Me — Study and Teaching Helps (2024): Lesson 31, July 29-August 4: Alma 36-38 “Look to God and Live”

Editor’s Note: Four years ago, Jonn Claybaugh began writing the Study and Teaching Helps series of articles for Interpreter. We now have these wonderful and useful posts for all four years of Come, Follow Me lessons. Beginning this year we will be reposting these articles, with dates, lesson numbers, and titles updated for the current year’s lessons. Jonn has graciously agreed to write new study aids for those lessons that do not directly correspond to 2020 lessons.

The Book of Mormon in Context Lesson 31: “Look to God and Live”: Alma 36-38

The 7 July 2024 Come, Follow Me segment of the Interpreter Radio Show featured Martin Tanner, Hales Swift, and Brent Schmidt. They discussed Book of Mormon lesson 31, “Look to God and Live” covering Alma 36-38.

Their conversation was recorded and archived — all save it be the commercial interruptions — and is now available for your listening pleasure. The other segments of the 7 July 2024 radio show can be accessed at https://interpreterfoundation.org/interpreter-radio-show-july-7-2024.

Also posted from the Interpreter Radio Show — July 14, 2024:

For the 14 July 2024 episode of the Interpreter Radio Show, Interpreter Foundation volunteers Terry Hutchinson, John Gee, Mark Johnson, and Kevin Christensen hosted Professor James VanDerKam as their special guest. They discussed his new book, R. H. Charles: A Biography (The Bible and the Humanities), Ron Hendell and his Anchor Bible Commentary on Genesis (coming in September), Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon lesson 32 and other topics.

The “Book of Mormon in Context” portion of this show, for the Come, Follow Me Book of Mormon lesson 32, will also be posted separately on Tuesday, July 30.

Their conversation was recorded and archived. It has also been freed from commercial interruptions, and it is now available to you whenever you choose to listen.

The Interpreter Radio Show can be heard live (and, alas, still marked by commercial interruptions) each and every Sunday evening from 7 to 9 PM (MDT) on K-TALK, AM 1640, in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake. Or you can listen live on the Internet at ktalkmedia.com.

The Redlands California Temple is a near-twin of the Newport Beach California Temple.
(Photograph by my wife)

I enjoyed this article in Meridian Magazine: “How Anti-Mormons Help Build Temples Around the Country” Although his point was not quite the same, it reminds me of a pair of famous comments from Brigham Young:

We completed a temple in Kirtland and in Nauvoo; and did not the bells of hell toll all the time we were building them? They did, every week and every day (Discourses of Brigham Young, 410).

Some say, “I do not like to do it, for we never began to build a temple without the bells of hell beginning to ring.” I want to hear them ring again (Discourses of Brigham Young, 410).

Émile Friant (1863-1932), “The Frugal Repast,” depicting a humble family in France
(Wikimedia Commons public domain image)

I call your attention now to an even half-dozen reports from out on the frontlines of the war against human biology:

Detail of a mural in the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress
(Wikimedia Commons public domain image)

I’m informed by people whom I trust that Something Big has happened in American national politics over the past few days. If so, how fascinating! (I no longer assert public political positions these days, having seen the Interpreter Foundation punished rather severely — and quite unjustly — because of my doing so in the past.) May I say that, in my judgment, while I think that political issues are important, America is confronted by challenges that run far deeper than mere political solutions and policies can adequately address? And that the way in which many of us appear to think and act politically seems to be a symptom of our underlying malaise?

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